It honestly never occurred to me that hair spray might smell like it does because that's considered acceptable. I always thought it was like road tar: you want the job done, you put up with the stench.
(gag) Hairspray sends me straight into an asthma attack.
We've been having construction next door all summer long, and I have the thrill of sitting by the shared wall of the building that's being gutted and redone. Jackhammers six inches away from my desk. Random pounding and clattering. Dust, dirt (they keep digging up the street), mold, tar, and the ghosts of a hundred thousand dead cigarettes. It's been sheer hell on my sinuses and asthma -- though they did finally get a HEPA filter for me, hallelujah.
And if I were given the choice, I'd rather have the construction than the hairspray.
I am fortunate enough that I have no medical objection to hairspray. Sitting where you're sitting -- with asthma! -- seems to me like it would be absolute misery.
I'm bemused by the fact that there are people who actively like the hairspray smell, while I have hated it for years, and I never knew. I guess it's just not a subject that ever came up.
*similar sheepish look* I said the wrong thing. To me, road tar is strongly noticeable, but neutral in terms of like or dislike. I should have said roofing tar. I find that stuff nasty. Are you fond of that one? :-)
Oh god, aqua net was such amazingly wretched stuff. Just thinking about it is making my eyes water, and it's been at least twenty years... the web thinks it is still on the market, I'd assumed it went away with a lot of the other toxic aerosols in the early 90s.
(It brings back childhood memories, too. But not *good* ones.)
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We've been having construction next door all summer long, and I have the thrill of sitting by the shared wall of the building that's being gutted and redone. Jackhammers six inches away from my desk. Random pounding and clattering. Dust, dirt (they keep digging up the street), mold, tar, and the ghosts of a hundred thousand dead cigarettes. It's been sheer hell on my sinuses and asthma -- though they did finally get a HEPA filter for me, hallelujah.
And if I were given the choice, I'd rather have the construction than the hairspray.
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I'm bemused by the fact that there are people who actively like the hairspray smell, while I have hated it for years, and I never knew. I guess it's just not a subject that ever came up.
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(It brings back childhood memories, too. But not *good* ones.)